spinning frame
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Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
When two or three threads are united by twisting, the operation can be conducted in a twisting frame which differs little from a ordinary spinning frame, and hence need not be described.
From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by Woodhouse, T.
From this machine the roving is wound on a bobbin ready for the spinning frame.
From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz
A great improvement on the spinning frame of the 18th century is the ring frame invented by Jenks.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
Warping The yarn coming from the spinning frame is sometimes dyed before weaving.
From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz
